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RANK

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

RANK assigns a series of rankings, which are different from ROW_NUMBER in that they:

  • Assign the same rank to tied rows
  • Skip ranks after tied rows

This works similarly as ranks in a sports event, when two athletes are ranked first, the next one is ranked third.

SELECT
  LANGUAGE_ID,
  rank() OVER (ORDER BY LANGUAGE_ID)
FROM
  BOOK;
create.select(
         BOOK.LANGUAGE_ID,
         rank().over(orderBy(BOOK.LANGUAGE_ID)))
     .from(BOOK)
     .fetch();

Producing:

+-------------+------+
| language_id | rank |
+-------------+------+
|           1 |    1 |
|           1 |    1 | <-- Tied rows are both ranked first
|           2 |    3 | <-- The next rank is 3 as 2 is skipped
|           4 |    4 |
+-------------+------+
See this article for a comparison between ROW_NUMBER, RANK, and DENSE_RANK

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

rank().over(orderBy(BOOK.ID))

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

Aurora Postgres, BigQuery, ClickHouse, CockroachDB, DB2, DuckDB, Exasol, Firebird, H2, Hana, Informix, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer, SQLite, Snowflake, Sybase, Teradata, Trino, Vertica, YugabyteDB

rank() OVER (ORDER BY BOOK.ID)

ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, Derby, HSQLDB

/* UNSUPPORTED */

(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.20, see #10141), or translate your own on our website

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